Word: steined
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
JULIA CHILD: Joel Stein on the life of the pioneering TV chef...
JEFFERSON STARTED BUILDING MONTICELLO WHEN HE WAS 25... ...HE ADDED THE FINAL TOUCHES WHEN HE WAS 80 YEARS OLD Sources: Thomas Jefferson Foundation monticello.org) The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, by Susan R. Stein; Monticello in Measured Drawings, commentary by William L. Beiswanger; Thomas Jefferson's Monticello; Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder, by Jack McLaughlin
...Outside of Broadway, these performers aren't household names. Menzel, the winner, played a bridesmaid in the indie movie "Kissing Jessica Stein." Murphy has some minor currency for Trekkies as Captain Picard's beloved Ba'ku babe in "Star Trek: Insurrection" or, for TV cultists, as Stanley Tucci's scheming wife on the first season of "Murder One." Pinkins' only non-Tony nomination was for Best Supporting Actress in a soap opera ("All My Children" in the early 90s). Chenoweth and D'Abruzzo have been seen, fleetingly, on "Sesame Street" - the first as Ms. Noodle, the second as a puppeteer...
...Broadway version by director-choreographer Kathleen Marshall, who also shepherded the 2000 revival, Eileen (now played by Jennifer Westfeldt, the star and co-writer of "Kissing Jessica Stein") is still the gal who gets pawed a lot and doesn't want it, and Ruth (Murphy) is still the big sister who isn't and does. I suspect that, if the show were done 30 or 50 years later, Ruth would be hungrier for women than for men. Even in this meticulous recreation of the 1953 show, there's a slightly lesbic undertone to the crooning and caressing in Ruth...
Several soon-to-be law school graduates said afterwards that they were glad Stein, a staunch Republican, refrained from delivering an overtly political speech...